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No. 1 Perrydale proves too much for the Buckaroos |
By B. Scott
Anderson, Newberg Graphic reporter
E-mail Scott at banderson@eaglenewspapers.com
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ST. PAUL —
Top-ranked and defending state champion Perrydale marched in to St.
Paul Friday and showed why it hasn’t lost a game in nearly two
years.
The Pirates pushed and shoved the No. 4 Buckaroos all over the
rodeo grounds in a 58-24 win to clinch their fourth straight Casco
League title.
For the first 12 minutes it looked like a heavyweight title fight,
each team answering the other’s blow. Then it turned into a blowout
as the Pirates score 18 points in the second quarter to turn a 12-12
game into a 30-12 halftime advantage. Midway through the third
quarter Perrydale had outscored the Bucks 38-0 since St. Paul’s
early 12-6 lead.
“We broke down in the second quarter and I thought we kind of hung
our heads after they got a couple scores and we got down by two
(touchdowns),” said St. Paul coach Jay Phillips. “The game is 48
minutes, not 12.”
St. Paul struck first with a six-play, 2:37 drive that culminated
in a Cody Kirk one-yard run to put the Bucks up 6-0.
The Pirates turned the ball over on downs on their first possession
— the only time they would do that the rest of the game — but on
their next possession marched 64 yards in nine plays capped by a
Kyle Eichler eight-yard run to tie the game at 6-6.
St. Paul then resorted to some trickery. On the Bucks’ first play
after the kickoff, they ran a double-reverse flea flicker. Kirk
handed the ball off to Matt Anderson, who handed the ball to Charles
Britnell, who flipped the ball back to Kirk. Kirk then found
Anderson alone in the middle of the field and 62 yards later
Anderson hit paydirt to give the Bucks a 12-6 lead with 15 seconds
left in the opening quarter.
“That was only one play and we needed to execute a lot more,”
Phillips said. “They’re a team that flies to the ball and we weren’t
blocking to the whistle. We had a couple blocks that we missed in
the second quarter that I thought could have been touchdowns.”
St. Paul had a hard time stopping Eichler, Perrydale’s all-state
running back. The senior ran for 294 yards on 22 carries and four
touchdowns.
“Eichler is a great player and they are big, strong and fast,”
Phillips said.
The Bucks ended their scoring drought with just under five minutes
left in the third quarter. After Perrydale’s Koby Hutchinson scored
to make it 44-12, St. Paul’s Will Donaldson fielded a squib kick at
the 50-yard line and sprinted 50 yards through the Pirate kickoff
team and into the end zone.
St. Paul’s final score came with 7:54 remaining in the game. Jeff
Annen hit Kirk on a five-yard pass play in the corner of the end
zone.
Phillips said his team has to eliminate mistakes next week at
Jewell, which is basically a playoff game. Both St. Paul (7-1) and
Jewell each have one league loss. The winner will advance to the
playoffs, the loser is finished.
“We made mistakes and against good teams you almost have to (play)
errorless football,” Phillips said. “As far as we’re concerned the
playoffs start next week. That’s the way we’re coaching it. We need
to play hard like we did in the first quarter and we’ll have
success.”
St. Paul had 163 yards of total offense, 130 of those yards came on
the legs of Anderson. Britnell ran for 37 yards and Kirk had two
touchdowns. |
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From
Nov. 2, 2005, Newberg Graphic
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